PANCAKE

Every now and then, will make pancake for breakfast but usually at weekend.

The recipe is simple and easy to make:

Ingredient:

1 egg
2 tbsp sugar
a pinch of salt
230g milk
2 tbsp. oil
250gram of plain flour
2 tsp baking powder

Method:

1 Shift the flour and baking powder and set aside
2 Mix the milk, oil and egg
3 Add sugar and salt to the shifted flour
4 Whisk the milk mixture to the flour mixture, mix well
5 Heat up the pan, and scoop a ladle of the mixture
6 Once bubbles is form, can turn the other side for a while
7 Ready to serve

enjoy :)

EGG TARTS

Egg tarts is my girl's fav, which sometimes she will request for it.

So let's get down to work:

Ingredient:

Pastry
200g plain flour
70g icing sugar
140g butter (harden butter)
1/2egg (beaten)

Method:

1 Add sugar, flour and butter to form crumb
2 Add in the egg and knead into a dough
3 Refrigerate for 20 min ( use this time to make the egg custard)
4 Once dough is ready, press evenly on the tart mould


Ingredient

Egg custard
2 1/2 egg
80g sugar
165ml water
60ml evaporated milk

Method:

1 Boil water and sugar, til sugar dissolve and leave to cool
2 Once cool, add the rest of the ingredient, whisk to mix well
3 Shift the mixture at least 3 times so that the egg custard will be smooth
4 Pour 80% full on the mould
5 Preheat the oven at 200 deg C for 15-20mins

enjoy :)

SALTED EGG COOKIES

Salted Egg make into cookies which is another cookies that make me doubtful? But still decided to give it a go and make a small batch to try whether the taste is acceptable or not.

I gave my colleague to try the cookies, none of them is able to tell what is the main ingredient for this cookies. When I reveal to them, then they will able to find the salted egg smell.

So let's get down to baking:

Ingredient:
250g plain flour
20g corn flour
1/4 tsp baking powder
4 cooked salted egg yolk (smashed)
170g butter
80g sugar

glaze: milk

Method:

1 Shift plain flour, corn flour, baking powder and set aside
2 Cream butter, sugar til light in colour
3 Add in the smashed egg yolks
4 Fold in the shifted flour to the mixture to form soft and pliable dough (if too soft, place it in the fridge for 30min)
5 Preheat the oven 170 deg C, mould the cookies using your desirable cookie cutter
6 Glaze the cookies and bake for 18 min (according to my oven)

enjoy :)

PEANUT PUFF

This is my hubby's fav, peanut puff, each year he will buy a small bottle for himself, but this year he asked whether I will be making this snack or not. As per his request, I will make more this year.

Simple and easy to mould but I dun like to fry but luckily I bought a deep fryer which had help me.

Ingredient:

Dough
300g plain flour
70g oil (unflavour)
120g water

Filling
100g peanuts
3tbsp roasted sesame seed
60g sugar

Method:

1 Combine flour and oil to form crumble, add in water and knead to form soft dough
2 I weigh each dough 5g, roll it into a ball and flatten
3 Fill the flatten dough with the filling (just enough to get seal)
4 Deep fry til golden brown

enjoy :)

POTATOES CHIP COOKIES

When I came across this cookies, I really had doubt how does it really taste like, Potatoes chip cookies? make me wonder?

Finally, decide to try this simple recipe, to my surprise it smells really nice when the cookies is baking. My hubby likes this cookies.

So let's get baking

Ingredient
250g butter
70g fine sugar
150g sour and cream potatoes chip
250g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder

Method:

1 Cream butter and sugar til light and fluffy
2 Stir in crushed potatoes chips
3 Fold in the shifted four with the baking powder, mix into a dough
4 I used two teaspoon to scoop and drop the mixture onto a baking mat
5 Preheat the oven 180 deg C and bake for 15 min.

enjoy :)

ROSE PINEAPPLE TART

Pineapple tarts is a must for CNY, so decided to make some rose pineapple tarts.

This is the best liked recipe for the dough as commented by family members and friends, for this recipe is a keeper for myself.

The dough is easy to manage and tweet the shape of the rose.

Here let get started:

Ingredient:
175g butter
50g condensed milk
235g plain flour
1 egg yolk

300g pineapple jam (homemade or store bought)

Method:
1 Cream butter and condensed milk til light yellow
2 Add in egg yolk, and beat til combine
3 Mix in the shifted flour, mix til mixture is soft and not sticky
4 Roll the pineapple jam 6g each, as for the dough is 10g each
5 Flatten the dough slightly, pinch the side to be flatter than the middle so that the seal part will almost the same thickness through out.
6 Wrap the pineapple jam in the middle of the dough and wrap it up
7 Used a tweeter to create the rose, brush milk
8 Preheat the oven to 170 deg C for 23 min (accordingly to my oven)
9 Cool completely before storing

 

before bake

 

 

after bake (the effect is not as good as egg wash)

 

 

enjoy :)



BUTTER COOKIES

Had made some butter cookies for my friends for this coming CNY, and I had bought some nice carrier which I love it so much.

This is a simple and basic recipe which consist of only four ingredients but it taste great. You can make your own variant cookies taste.

So now let's get working:

Ingredient:
100g unsalted butter (use good quality) at room temperature
25g icing sugar
45g flour
30g bread flour
25g corn flour

Method

1 Shift all the flour
2 Cream the butter and icing sugar til pale and creamy
3 Pour the flour mixture to the butter using folding method
4 Mix well will do, do not over mix.
5 Pipe the batter on the prepare cookies tray.
6 Preheat the oven 160 deg C for about 15-18min depending on the size of the cookies that you had piped.

Enjoy :)

JELLY HEARTS CHEESECAKE

This dessert is non bake cheesecake which don't require much effort but time is needed. As you need to do it layer by layer (actually only three layer (base, cheesecake and jelly). Manage to get some fresh strawberries which really tastes sweet, so here I go making this jelly hearts cheesecake.

Let's get down to work:

Ingredient:

Crust
150g Oreo cookies, fine crumbs (only the biscuit without the filling, filling can keep aside)
 75g melted butter
8inch square pan (grease bottom and side of pan)

Cheesecake layer
1 level tbsp. gelatine powder
3/4cup (175ml) hot boiling water
one block of cream cheese (250g) soften
1 tsp vanilla extract
Oreo filling
6 strawberries cut into halves

Jelly layer
one box of jelly O (instruction as per box)

Method:

Crust
1 In a bowl, combine the oreo crumbs and melted butter and mix well.
2 Pour the biscuit mixture onto the prepare pan, flatten and cover the whole pan (I used the back of the spoon to flatten).
3 Chill in the freeze for 30 mins or until the crust is firm

Cheesecake layer
1 Dissolve the gelatine powder in a bowl of hot water, and allow it to cool.
2 Add the cream cheese, vanilla extract and the oreo filling and mix well using an mixer.
3 Mix til light and fluffy
4 If the gelatine is not dissolved yet, stir til all gelatine powder is dissolve
5 Add a little at a time of the gelatine mixture into the cream cheese mixture until the batter is smooth
6 Use a fork to prick holes all over the crust mixture, pour the cream cheese onto it.

7 Arrange the strawberries and chill in the fridge about 2-3hours

Jelly layer
1 as per instruction on the box
2 Pour the jelly mixture on the Cheesecake layer
3 Return to fridge and chill for a few hours or til it set.
4 To serve, divide and cut the cheesecake with one strawberry on it. After each slice, wipe your knife clean with a kitchen towel. In this way, the slice of the cheesecake will be clean on the side.

Enjoy :)

MEXICAN COFFEE OR CHOCOLATE BUN

This is the all time favourite bun to my girl, usually I will make coffee bun but this time I would like to try Chocolate bun instead. I told my dad I will be making coffee bun asking him whether he wants or not, once he heard coffee, he told me straightaway "no". So I will change to chocolate immediately he said "ok".

It had been sometimes that I made these bun, and at the same time I also want to eat, hehe.

So let get down to work:

Ingredient:

Chocolate or coffee topping
200g softened butter
160 icing sugar
3 lightly beaten egg
2tbsp of unsweeten chocolate powder or instant coffee dissolved in 1 tbsp. water
200g flour

Sweet bun
500g bread flour
20g milk powder (optional)
75g of sugar
6g salt
8g instant yeast
1 lightly beaten egg
270g water
60g softened butter

Method

Chocolate or coffee topping
1 Beat softened butter and sugar until the mixture is light and fluffy

2 Gradually add in the beaten egg
3 Mix in the chocolate or coffee

 

4 Shift in the flour and mix until combined.

 

5 Put the mixture into a piping bag and refrigerate (10min before piping remove the topping paste from the fridge so that is easy to pipe)

Sweet bun
1 Mix the bread flour, milk powder, sugar and salt in a mixer until well combined (low speed if not the flour will fly all over the place)
2 Add in the yeast, egg and water. Mix on low speed first then change to medium speed until gluten is formed
3 Add in the butter, mix til window pane is formed

 

4 Remove the dough from the mixing bowl and shape into a ball, cover it with a damp cloth

5 Let the dough proof until double in size

 

6 Once the dough is double in size, check whether the dough is ready by inserting your finger in the middle of the dough and the dough did not spring back, next punch down to release the air.

7 Divide the dough 38g each, roll out in a circle and let the dough rest for 10mins.

8 Add in 4g of butter, wrap the dough

 

9 Let the dough proof for the second time until double in size

10 After proofing, pipe the filling on top of each dough and decorate with chocolate chip (which I had forgotten to take a pix)
11 Preheat the oven 200 deg C, bake for 15mins or until lightly brown

12 Is best to be eaten warm.

Enjoy:)